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US and Mexico pledge ongoing joint security efforts during DHS Secretary Mullin visit

Sheinbaum said both governments will keep working on fentanyl, migrant smuggling and intelligence sharing as tensions persist over cartel indictments and migrant deaths.

  • On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in Mexico City to strengthen bilateral security cooperation on drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, and intelligence sharing.
  • Tensions recently escalated following April 19 deaths of two CIA agents near Mexico's northern border and U.S. drug trafficking indictments against 10 Mexican officials from Sinaloa on firearms and smuggling charges.
  • Sheinbaum also raised concerns regarding 15 Mexican migrants who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers since 2025, prompting her administration to bring cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
  • The president ruled out discussing the 10 indicted officials with Mullin, maintaining that her administration will not interfere with investigations opened by Mexico's Attorney General's Office.
  • Navigating a delicate balance with Trump, Sheinbaum aims to continue bilateral security cooperation while asserting Mexico's sovereignty, saying "All we want is for that cooperation to continue.
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Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Secretary of Security, detailed the key points of the meeting he held at the National Palace with President Claudia Sheinbaum.Through a social media message, Markwayne Mullin highlighted that the meeting served to discuss "key priorities" of the U.S., noting that it was a pleasure to be able to hold a dialogue with Claudia Sheinbaum.The key points of Markwayne Mullin's meeting with Claudia Sheinbaum Secretary Markwayne Mul…

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What will they know in the National Palace that has them so dislocated? What information will they have or will have notified them, that they will meet again near the ranch of the bad word. Now it will be in Tabasco. What projection will they have of the next elections, that from now on they want to annul them. To what did the U.S. Secretary of National Security come to Mexico? Apparently, the people of the Palace know that, although they insist…

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udgtv broke the news on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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